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A most remarkable actor and gentleman of the silver screen. I grew up with his Hammer and Fu Manchu movies... and, of course, his memorable turn in Bond. He seemed to keep on going and going too. We'll not see his like again... but he's left behind a massive body of work to be remembered by.
just heard about christopher lee, strange that I should have snapped this in the vintage magazine shop this afternoon.
A tribute to Sir Christopher Lee, a great actor and a great man ... rest in peace and may the force be with you ...
"Please try and understand - this is not Lucy, the sister you loved. It's only a shell possessed and corrupted by the evil of Dracula. To liberate her soul and give her peace we must destroy that shell for all time. Believe me ... there is no other way."
('Doctor Van Helsing' by NECA)
Diorama by RK ('Stephanie Swift'
as Lucy Holmwood by Plastic Fantasy Adult Superstars)
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great stamp Great Britain 81p movie poster, Filmplakat "The Mummy" (1959) by Terence Fisher; (with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Furneaux; Die Rache der Pharaonen, La Malédiction des pharaons, La mummia)
timbre UK United Kingdom stamps England selo sello stamps GB stamp Great Britain GB England UK แสตมป์ บริเตนใหญ่ pulları İngiltere frimärken Storbritannien टिकटों ग्रेट ब्रिटेन इंग्लैंड timbre postes postage selo sello UK GB francobolli United Kingdom Briefmarken England Grossbritannien sellos Gran Bretaña 邮票 大不列颠 英格兰 γραμματόσημα Μεγάλη Βρετανία 切手 スタンプ グレートブリテン イングランド postzegels zegels Groot-Brittannië 우표 영국 antspaudai Didžiojoje Britanijoje znaczki Wielka Brytania selos Grã-Bretanha марки Великобритания Англия tem Vương quốc Anh GB
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I'm stampolina and I love to take photos of stamps. Thanks for visiting this pages on flickr.
I'm neither a typical collector of stamps, nor a stamp dealer. I'm only a stamp photograph. I'm fascinated of the fine close-up structures which are hidden in this small stamp-pictures. Please don't ask of the worth of these stamps - the most ones have a worth of a few cents or still less.
By the way, I wanna say thank you to all flickr users who have sent me stamps! Great! Thank you! Someone sent me 3 or 5 stamps, another one sent me more than 20 stamps in a letter. It's everytime a great surprise for me and I'm everytime happy to get letters with stamps inside from you!
thx, stampolina
For the case you wanna send also stamps - it is possible. (...I'm pretty sure you'll see these stamps on this photostream on flickr :) thx!
stampolina68
Mühlenweg 3/2
3244 Ruprechtshofen
Austria - Europe
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great stamp Great Britain 48p movie poster, Filmplakat (Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1958, Christopher Lee) timbre UK United Kingdom stamps England selo sello stamps GB stamp Great Britain GB England UK แสตมป์ บริเตนใหญ่ pulları İngiltere frimärken Storbritannien टिकटों ग्रेट ब्रिटेन इंग्लैंड timbre postes postage selo sello UK GB francobolli United Kingdom Briefmarken England Grossbritannien sellos Gran Bretaña 邮票 大不列颠 英格兰 γραμματόσημα Μεγάλη Βρετανία 切手 スタンプ グレートブリテン イングランド postzegels zegels Groot-Brittannië 우표 영국 antspaudai Didžiojoje Britanijoje znaczki Wielka Brytania selos Grã-Bretanha марки Великобритания Англия tem Vương quốc Anh GB
A Wizard on at least two Counts
I first remember watching him in the Hammer House Of Horror films and being so scared but loved his acting so kept going back for more As Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man he also kept me hidden under the bed clothes after watching it but yet again I came back for more He stared in countless films but these are ones I remember watching as a child and still have nightmares to this day Thank You & Goodnight Sir Christopher.
"Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror,
Won't leave me alone.
The first time in my life,
I keep the lights on
To ease my soul." - Kate Bush
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"You can have no idea what an evil man he is ... or of the terrible things he does!"
('Count Dracula' by NECA)
Diorama by RK
I woke up today and was hit with very sad news. Christopher Lee (Count Dooku, Saruman, Dracula, etc) had passed away. Even though it is sad he is now gone, It is not. He lived a long and amazing life, and had his 93rd Birthday fairly recently. Not many people get to live long and filled lives, but Christopher Lee was able to. He played many amazing Characters, but the best roles of his are Count Dooku and Saruman. You will be missed...RIP.
In other news, I want to apologize for not uploading anything for a month. But don't worry, more things are on the way, I've just been lazy lately. Once I clean up my building area, I will start to build some stuff again. The next build I have planned is something FNAF related, so stay tuned! But yeah, thats all for now. Until next time!
-Justin
As for Lewis Caroll's The hunting of the Snark, my main focus is on Henry Holiday's conundrums in his illustrations to Carroll's poem. I think, the poem has been underestimated since 1876. A good movie could change that. Finally, In 2011, the Snark goes Hollywood.
2010-07-30: The image shows a preliminary poster. I added it to my photostream with consent from Michael McNeff, the director of that movie.
So here it is, then – Koh Ta Pu, also known as James Bond Island. It’s in the magical setting of Phang Nga Bay, one of the undisputed jewels in Thailand’s marine crown. The bay, covering some 400 sq kms, is an area of outstanding limestone cliffs and stacks, mangroves, sea grass beds, coral reefs and intertidal wetlands.
And here, left of frame, is Koh Ta Pu, the stack which featured in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore as 007 and Christopher Lee as the villain Scaramanga. The stack rises to some 21 metres and has a diameter of around 4 metres at sea level and 8 metres at the top. Although it’s a major tourist site and sight, no boats are allowed anywhere near it because of its vulnerability to erosion and eventual collapse. You view it from a distance. And what a view!
A great man and actor, Christopher Lee played many iconic movie characters, including Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun in James Bond), Count Dooku in Star Wars, Count Dracula and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings (all of which are in the image), and many more. Christopher Lee has sadly passed away on the 7th of June, at the age of 93. He will be sorely missed and his legacy will live on, as he has been immortalized in the history of mankind.
Rest In Peace,
Sir Christopher Lee
1922 - 2015
British postcard by EON Productions Limited. Photo: Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 1974).
British film actor Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was best known as Count Dracula, the bloodsucking vampire. But he created more unforgettable characters on screen, like Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and as the title figure in the Hammer Horror film The Mummy (1959). Lee acted in nearly 230 films in a career spanning nearly 70 years.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in 1922 in London, England. He came from an acting dynasty; his great-grandparents founded the first Australian opera company. His parents were Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier. They divorced in 1926. Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) the banker Harcourt George St.-Croix. After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941, when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After his military service, Lee joined the Rank Organisation in 1947, training as an actor in their Charm School and playing several bit parts in such films as the Gothic romance Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young, 1948) with Eric Portman. He made a brief appearance as a spear carrier in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948). A few years later, he appeared in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (Raoul Walsh, 1951) as a Spanish captain. Lee had numerous film and television roles throughout the 1950s. He also dubbed foreign films into English, including Jacques Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
Christopher Lee struggled to get work early in his career as a supporting actor because almost all the male stars were shorter than he was. However, playing the monster in the Hammer film Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957) proved to be a blessing in disguise. The film was a success and the jumping-off point for Hammer, a small company which had been in production for several years, and now filled the void left by the American majors in the production of the horror film. Lee was signed on for future roles in Hammer productions. His deeply melodic basso voice, towering height and slender frame were perfect for imposing, menacing villains. Lee often played contrasting roles with Peter Cushing in the Hammer films. Cushing was often the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula respectively in Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy respectively in The Mummy (Terence Fisher, 1959). Lee continued his role as Dracula in several Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. He also co-starred with Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (Terence Fisher, 1959), and made numerous appearances as Fu Manchu, most notably in the first of the series, The Face of Fu Manchu (Don Sharp, 1965). He also made several films in other European countries. With his own production company, Charlemagne Productions, Ltd., Lee made Nothing But the Night (Peter Sasdy, 1973) and To the Devil a Daughter (Peter Sykes, 1976) with Richard Widmark and Nastassja Kinski. Lee was tired of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970), The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973), The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 1974) with Roger Moore.
In the late 1970s, Christopher Lee moved to Hollywood, where he remained a busy actor but made mostly unremarkable film and television appearances, and eventually moved back to England. The beginning of the new millennium relaunched his career to some degree, during which he played Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002) and as Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2001-2003). Lee played Count Dooku again in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005) and as Johnny Depp's character's father in the Tim Burton film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). In 2001, he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 2009 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity. In addition, he was made a Commander of the Order of St John in 1997. In 2015, Christopher Lee died of heart failure in London. He was 93. He had one child, Christina Erika Lee (1963), with his wife Birgit Kroencke Lee (Gitte Lee).
Sources: Lyn Hammond and Sidhartha Shankar (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox overhead right. Triggered by Cybersync.
Pro-Optic 8mm ƒ3.5
My Christopher Lee-inspired Elven Charlemagne. Today marks the 4th anniversary of Christopher Lee's Death who hapened to be the oldest Heavy Metal singer.
I figured I'd try some tweaks to the R2 polybag. Many thanks to ChristopherLee on Eurobricks who made the LXF file that I used for reference and adaptation.
The Raven (Christopher Lee)
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The Raven
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—
This it is and nothing more.”
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door;—
Darkness there and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
’Tis the wind and nothing more!”
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as “Nevermore.”
But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—
Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
Then the bird said “Nevermore.”
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore—
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of ‘Never—nevermore’.”
But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
by Asmus Toys
Saruman comes with a fancy extra; the Palantír of Orthanc. The base is beautifully sculpted and has a light up section (no batteries included... but with a neat magentic cover rather than a screw on one) to place the orb upon...
... well, I say orb. Mine isn't exactly spherical and is a tad on the disappointing side, I think I'll try to search out a suitable marble to use instead.
West German collector card by Bravo-Autogrammkarte.
British film actor Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was best known as Count Dracula, the bloodsucking vampire. But he created more unforgettable characters on screen, like Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and as the title figure in the Hammer Horror film The Mummy (1959). Lee acted in nearly 230 films in a career spanning nearly 70 years.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in 1922 in London, England. He came from an acting dynasty; his great-grandparents founded the first Australian opera company. His parents were Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier. They divorced in 1926. Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) the banker Harcourt George St.-Croix. After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941, when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After his military service, Lee joined the Rank Organisation in 1947, training as an actor in their Charm School and playing several bit parts in such films as the Gothic romance Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young, 1948) with Eric Portman. He made a brief appearance as a spear carrier in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948). A few years later, he appeared in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (Raoul Walsh, 1951) as a Spanish captain. Lee had numerous film and television roles throughout the 1950s. He also dubbed foreign films into English, including Jacques Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
Christopher Lee struggled to get work early in his career as a supporting actor because almost all the male stars were shorter than he was. However, playing the monster in the Hammer film Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957) proved to be a blessing in disguise. The film was a success and the jumping-off point for Hammer, a small company which had been in production for several years and now filled the void left by the American majors in the production of the Horror film. Lee was signed on for future roles in Hammer productions. His deeply melodic basso voice, towering height and slender frame were perfect for imposing, menacing villains. Lee often played contrasting roles with Peter Cushing in the Hammer films. Cushing was often the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula, respectively in Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy, respectively, in The Mummy (Terence Fisher, 1959). Lee continued his role as Dracula in several Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. He also co-starred with Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (Terence Fisher, 1959), and made numerous appearances as Fu Manchu, most notably in the first of the series, The Face of Fu Manchu (Don Sharp, 1965). He also made several films in other European countries. With his own production company, Charlemagne Productions, Ltd., Lee made Nothing But the Night (Peter Sasdy, 1973) and To the Devil a Daughter (Peter Sykes, 1976) with Richard Widmark and Nastassja Kinski. Lee was tired of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970), The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973), The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 1974) with Roger Moore.
In the late 1970s, Christopher Lee moved to Hollywood, where he remained a busy actor but made mostly unremarkable film and television appearances, and eventually moved back to England. The beginning of the new millennium relaunched his career to some degree, during which he played Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002) and as Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2001-2003). Lee played Count Dooku again in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005) and as Johnny Depp's character's father in the Tim Burton film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). In 2001, he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 2009 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity. In addition, he was made a Commander of the Order of St John in 1997. In 2015, Christopher Lee died of heart failure in London. He was 93. He had one child, Christina Erika Lee (1963), with his wife Birgit Kroencke Lee (Gitte Lee).
Sources: Lyn Hammond and Sidhartha Shankar (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Uhoh, another dolly ignores the warning signs and goes snooping around Castle Vampyr... well, at least the Count won't go hungry tonight!
These images are quick edits in dark room, not a photography light controlled processing room, just a dark domestic room. The colours and the correction have been skewed by the darkness and the light from the screen. These images are a quick reflection of me as I try to remember where sleep is to be found. I hope that there is a flower power galore beaming out of the screen at you as it has been at me. This flower was blooming at the side of the path and it was as intended a great beacon attracting attention to fulfil the fertile promise it was generated for. It could very easily be passed on by and it could also be answered with a response to vibrant display it has. The passion of pollen is vegetable and usually it is ardent to bring about new life in the cycle of flowering and seed scattering. Our warm blooded animal passions are roused by the same warm weather that brings out flowers and we like them make our displays, but there are more differences to us animals and in amongst few similarities and many differences we are here coexisting and hopefully learning life lessons together for a better world.
“I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth.”
Lord Summerisle from the film The Wicker Man, 1973 played by Christopher Lee.
For me animals are worth turning to and humans too if we can share the wonders of the world together. One seed grows a plant that creates many seeds and they have a chance to grow many plants. We farm to reproduce crops and we garden to generate beauty and all around nature continues growing and blooming feeding and delighting us and all life that appreciates her.
I think I could turn and live with plants. They are so regenerative and self contained. In their flowering beds they do not lie awake in the dark. They make me joyful as they answer the Sun and live their lives around the seasonal cycle. Not one of them kneels to another, or to any of his own kind that has been their life for thousands of years now. Not one of them is respectable, or unhappy, rather they are plentiful all over the earth competing for the sunshine and out growing each other with some thriving and others failing all in their own ways. Yet I would not be here to appreciate botanical beauty without modern medicine. I am rambling now in a weird world of existential evaluation as I have a brief chance to turn my sleepless self at, I hope, a worthwhile task, further I hope that people see something of these pictures and get too bored with the accompanying text to read it all. For those still reading, thank you and I hope that you find your flowers to stop you as you were about to pass by and that they and you enjoy a moment, two.
Made a 4 edit this morning and I cant now read my text from last night.
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From the back cover:
THE REPTILE -- From the steaming jungles of Borneo to a remote Cornish village came the fiendish curse that turned a lovely young girl into a nameless horror.
DRACULA -- PRINCE OF DARKNESS -- Blood mingles with ashes and so becomes a life-giving force to the evil desires of a Vampire.
RASPUTIN -- THE MAD MONK -- Hypnotist, seducer, libertine and drunkard -- he ruled the Tsar's court like a devil incarnate.
THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES -- Infamous Voodoo ritual casts its barbarous shadow over a village of 'the undead.'
by Asmus Toys
Finally, a 12" Saruman figure and it's a bit good too. Great sculpt and painting from Asmus, nice clothing (though the plastic boots could've been painted better - just one uniform, light grey coat) and firm joints (too firm in the wrist area, the vinyl forearms grip the wrist peg too tightly).
I tweaked him a little; For starters I removed the neck cup inside his head so that it sat on the neck better (not fun; this ones a black rubber piece which would rather rip than slide out all in one piece) and his hair needed a bit of work;
(i) pop the head on a nude body (I had the rather unsettling temporary custom of a muscle bodied Saruman for a while!!!)
(ii) try to get the hair where you want it and then
(iii) pour some just-boiled water over it
(iv) tidy the hair while still wet and warm (I also poured cold water over it then to help convince it to set in position)
(v) leave to dry
(vi) place back on his original body and apply a bit of product to stop too many flyaway hairs (I use the Bed Head Tigi stuff... hmmm, my Saruman smells of blueberries!)
British postcard by GB Posters, Sheffield, no. PC0462. Photo: New Line Cinema. Christopher Lee as Saruman in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001).
British film actor Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was best known as Count Dracula, the bloodsucking vampire. But he created more unforgettable characters on screen, like Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and as the title figure in the Hammer Horror film The Mummy (1959). Lee acted in nearly 230 films in a career spanning nearly 70 years.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in 1922 in London, England. He came from an acting dynasty; his great-grandparents founded the first Australian opera company. His parents were Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier. They divorced in 1926. Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) the banker Harcourt George St.-Croix. After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941, when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After his military service, Lee joined the Rank Organisation in 1947, training as an actor in their Charm School and playing several bit parts in such films as the Gothic romance Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young, 1948) with Eric Portman. He made a brief appearance as a spear carrier in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948). A few years later, he appeared in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (Raoul Walsh, 1951) as a Spanish captain. Lee had numerous film and television roles throughout the 1950s. He also dubbed foreign films into English, including Jacques Tati's Mr. Hulot's Holiday.
Christopher Lee struggled to get work early in his career as a supporting actor because almost all the male stars were shorter than he was. However, playing the monster in the Hammer film Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957) proved to be a blessing in disguise. The film was a success and the jumping-off point for Hammer, a small company which had been in production for several years, and now filled the void left by the American majors in the production of the horror film. Lee was signed on for future roles in Hammer productions. His deeply melodic basso voice, towering height and slender frame were perfect for imposing, menacing villains. Lee often played contrasting roles with Peter Cushing in the Hammer films. Cushing was often the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula respectively in Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy respectively in The Mummy (Terence Fisher, 1959). Lee continued his role as Dracula in several Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. He also co-starred with Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (Terence Fisher, 1959), and made numerous appearances as Fu Manchu, most notably in the first of the series, The Face of Fu Manchu (Don Sharp, 1965). He also made several films in other European countries. With his own production company, Charlemagne Productions, Ltd., Lee made Nothing But the Night (Peter Sasdy, 1973) and To the Devil a Daughter (Peter Sykes, 1976) with Richard Widmark and Nastassja Kinski. Lee was tired of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970), The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973), The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton, 1974) with Roger Moore.
In the late 1970s, Christopher Lee moved to Hollywood, where he remained a busy actor but made mostly unremarkable film and television appearances, and eventually moved back to England. The beginning of the new millennium relaunched his career to some degree, during which he played Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, 2002) and as Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2001-2003). Lee played Count Dooku again in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005) and as Johnny Depp's character's father in the Tim Burton film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). In 2001, he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 2009 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity. In addition, he was made a Commander of the Order of St John in 1997. In 2015, Christopher Lee died of heart failure in London. He was 93. He had one child, Christina Erika Lee (1963), with his wife Birgit Kroencke Lee (Gitte Lee).
Sources: Lyn Hammond and Sidhartha Shankar (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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